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2016 Postmortem

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1. I'll kick that!

Sun Feb 10, 2013, 02:50 AM

Feb 2013

n/t

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I’ve always thought..Tea Party was the dumbest fucking name for a political party ever. [View all] busterbrown Feb 2013 OP

I'll kick that! defacto7 Feb 2013 #1

K & R, but you're being a bit harsh.. Permanut Feb 2013 #2

the name is a lot better BainsBane Feb 2013 #3

They started out as "Tea Baggers" uriel1972 Feb 2013 #4

In my heart of hearts, they'll always be "Tea Baggers' to me NBachers Feb 2013 #6

Because they want to shove their junk down our throats? LiberalFighter Feb 2013 #13

I usually refer to them as the teabaggeratti lunatica Feb 2013 #14

That's right Politicalboi Feb 2013 #8

But Teabaggers think it is perfectly all right... Richard Cleary Feb 2013 #21

Yes! That was the best part! lexw Feb 2013 #9

I thought it was the funniest thing ever FunkyLeprechaun Feb 2013 #11

I always get a great big laugh out of how furiously mac56 Feb 2013 #15

Keith Olbermann Reminds the Teabaggers that They Coined Their Own Name Ian David Feb 2013 #27

Tax Evading Assholes Skittles Feb 2013 #5

What do you expect Mkap Feb 2013 #7

Think of them as the "Mad Haters Tea Party" intaglio Feb 2013 #10

Koch aready used the John Birch Society name. Sunlei Feb 2013 #12

Well, the real irony to me was..... Wounded Bear Feb 2013 #16

Taxed Enough Already........Bullshit!!! busterbrown Feb 2013 #18

That came later. They started off as the "Teabag Party"... JHB Feb 2013 #32

I still call them Teabaggers. Pisses them off. Richard Cleary Feb 2013 #17

They'll always be teabaggers to me. I like pissing them off. santamargarita Feb 2013 #19

+100 robertkdem1965_h89 Feb 2013 #24

Now, now union_maid Feb 2013 #22

A group of dumb people should have a dumb name BlueDemKev Feb 2013 #23

See below Ian Iam Feb 2013 #25

Douchebags are too big to hang from hats. n/t Ian David Feb 2013 #26

They are nothing but Republicans Mr.Bill Feb 2013 #30

"Know Nothings" was pretty stupid for a name. To be fair, though yellowcanine Feb 2013 #33